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You were lucky - where I'm from (CA Central Valley) you're really lucky to get above 500kbps with Sprint. I only managed that at Costco in some other town. Most other places I got around 200kbps.

Yeah im from Hawaii, that's not all about sprint with sprint when I get 5 bars its good speeds
4 or less bars its a different story or right when its busy for example a concert or a baseball game or pretty much any day past 12PM

T-Mobile in Maui has fewer towers than sprint but gets better indoor coverage. And T-Mobile still has microwave backhaul on most of its sites and not fiber (maybe because maui does not have fiber providers at all)

Maui coverage should get a bit better too. Only the west side of the Island has been modernized so far. What city is your speed test from? Since the west side supposedly has LTE I think the HSPA speeds would be much faster there than what yours shows. But then again you only had one bar.

You were lucky - where I'm from (CA Central Valley) you're really lucky to get above 500kbps with Sprint. I only managed that at Costco in some other town. Most other places I got around 200kbps.

In Socal, Sprint 3G usually gets around 30kbps down, 120kbps up. I suffered for over a year before I jumped to Verizon Wireless.

T-Mobile is great in Socal, but in other parts of the country it can be hit-or-miss (especially in more rural areas). I would love to come back to them if/when their network coverage rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless.